Sentences with phrase «rural scenes painted»

Its extensive collection includes Irish landscape painting and rural scenes painted in watercolours, acrylics, oils or mixed media, along with a range of exclusive Giclee prints, as well as a number of contemporary irish artworks.

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It's an artistic hub popular for its Tz» utujil oil paintings — vibrant canvases that often depict a bird's - eye view of rural scenes and landscapes.

Before arriving at a final print, I construct iconic architecture creating rural scenes out of clay and wood then paint or draw their backdrops.

Embracing many approaches including photography, painting, sculpture, and installation, artist, Carolyn Conrad constructs rural scenes from clay and wood using a minimalist approach.

The great popular art of the»30s was so called American Scene painting, very rural, very nostalgic painting.

With both nostalgia and satire, her paintings explore the intricacies of daily life, often depicting rural scenes and traditions at risk of disappearing.

• American Scene Painting (1925 - 45) Realist style that exalted rural and small town America.

Their handling of colour and tone, their compositional ability, their skill in landscape painting (the dusty road, the quiet forest), their ability in presenting rural genre - scenes, their portraiture, and their history painting, is on a par with any national school of fine art.

A painting like Samuel Colman's Farmyard, East Hampton (ca. 1880) evokes a nostalgia for the vanishing rural scene.

The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world.

American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small - town America primarily in the Midwest and Deep South.

Most renowned for his oil paintings depicting both urban and rural scenes, American realist Edward Hopper has cemented his place amongst the greats of American modern art.

Included were portraits, landscape paintings, and scenes of the rural poor.

His works, which depict scenes ranging from urban, rural, and wooded landscapes to artists» studios and lone figures in fishing boats, concentrate on the illusionistic properties of paint.

A strong believer in solid draughtsmanship, Kelly paints in a Realist (or Pre-Impressionist) style, focusing on coastal scenes and rural views within his local area of North Dublin, although - in keeping with his conviction that a true artist should be able to turn his hand or brush to anything - he continues to experiment in all the genres, and travels regularly within Ireland and parts of Europe in search of suitable subjects.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

In a different way to the idealised scenes of Sean Keating, Charles Lamb was one of the first painters to paint a type of heroic Western peasant, thus marking the difference both between the rural and the urban, and between Irish culture and one with English, European and American influence.